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... was closed the rollercoaster because someone got seriously injured last week. Today we went to a cricket store and I got. 4 mini bats, new socks, a new long sleeve sweater, new shoes and two duke cricket balls. We are in Birmingham now and I got to meet Aaron finch. So ...

It`s the day before the long awaited trip to the USA. The packing is complete. Martin and Sheila are starting the holiday early as they have tickets for Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons at the NEC so Chris and Gill will meet them at the airport tomorrow to check in at 6.30am. Our flight departs at 9.00am for Newark where we have about 4 hours to kill before flying onto Las Vegas. ...

After a an early start, (2:30 am), I went to Birmingham Airport for a KLM flight to Amsterdam. There was a 2 hour stopover before the next flight was to Johannesburg which took 10 and a half hours, arriving at 9.15pm. I stopped at a hotel close to the airport, as there are no flights out of Johannesburg at this time of night. My journey will continue tomorrow. ...

... used in the 1800's.Still as imposing today. We've seen the china museum, tile museum, old tollhouse at the bridge, tar tunnel museum (where miners accidentally discovered an underground spring of natural tar), and we've still got a few more to visit. We donned hard hats and were brave enough to "walk the tar tunnel". We've also donned our hard hats when we floated through underground tunnels in a canal barge at the Black Country ...

As we prepare to leave Ironbridge tomorrow, we are at the point of having seen enough old machines for a lifetime. However, it has been really interesting and well worth it to be reminded of the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. However, there are ten museums here to choose from, with some inevitable repetition amongst them, so that is maybe a cause for being a bit jaded.

On our way here from Exeter we stopped at the Black and White (Tudor) Villages ...